Cindi

Health Interests

Psychology,  Disorders and Syndromes,  Mental Health,  Neuroscience,  Caregiving,  Chronic Illness,  Medical Imaging,  Pharmacology,  Pain Control,  Menopause,  Nervous System,  Healthy Aging,  and of course... Migraines.

Drugs I am Taking

Cindi has not shared any drug information.

About Me

My co-workers and I often joke about "better living through chemistry" but sincerely, it's better living through KNOWLEDGE, for only in understanding our afflictions can we begin to engage them in battle. I am a Christian woman who does not see faith and science in conflict, but rather as partners. My four children are grown and nearly all have flown the nest, leaving me here with my two cats. I've had migraine attacks for nearly 40 years. Wow. My first when I was in elementry school. Thank God, we've come a long way since my childhood "sick headaches."

As for my migraines, they are common in type, without aura, always on the right side, definitely aggrivated by motion, sound, and light. My right eye "waters." I take a daily preventive cocktail that changes from time to time, and so if the attack breaks thru that barrier and pain meds (triptans) do not work with the first dose, often the attack will intensify and nausea, dizziness, and a tunnel-vision effect in my right eye will begin. Normally, a second dose of the pain med will do the trick, leaving me zapped of energy for the following 24-36 hours. My children all have memories of creeping quietly into my darkened bedroom, making sure I had something to drink at my bedside, and kissing my hand because they knew it hurt if they kissed my head. Bless them.

Thank God for the treatments now available! 15 years ago I was taking demerol, phenergen, and flexeril and heading to bed - sometimes for three days! (Didn't know about rebound headaches... probably had many of those, too.) I lost a great deal of my life in those days, but today my outlook is much brighter. I do have migraine disease, but it no longer has me like it once did.

I believe that all things happen for a reason, and there is a reason that I am a migraineur. Helping others along the same way surely gives me comfort on the dark days that I wonder "why?"